The Seinfeld star hears from female friends like Sally Field and Billie Jean King in the return of Wiser Than Me. Plus: five of the best paranormal podcasts
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Thought you’d heard it all when it comes to podcasts’ obsession with the unexplained? You may want to think again. Forget the likes of Ghost Story – in recent weeks a show has launched featuring a pet psychic. Creature Preacher features “animal communicator” Nancy Mello giving animal owners an in-depth personality reading of their pet, based entirely on looking into their eyes. It is a wild, baffling listen that raises more questions than it answers.
But if you like your pods’ noumenal delvings to be a little more trad, this week we’re bringing you a roundup of five of the best paranormal podcasts out there (yes, including Ghost Story). We’re also highlighting the excellent Lolly Adefope satire on sports shows, the return of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s brilliant Wiser Than Me and a lively new chatshow from Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver. Plus, we have a stirring, personal take on the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strikes and a nuanced look at a woman who was jailed for allegedly falsely claiming to have been raped.
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